Flushing apparatus



H. J. BRESSONL FLUSHING APPARATUS.

APPLICATION FILED nov. 4. ms.

Patented Nov. 8, 192;?

PATENT OFFICE.

HENRY J. BRESSON, OF DETROIT, MICHIGAN.

FLUSHING APPARATUS.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Nov 8, 1921.

Application filed November 4, 1918. Serial No. 261,151.

T 0 all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, Hnxnr J. BRESSON, a citizen of the United States of America, residing at Detroit, in the county of \Vayne and State of Michigan, have invented cer-- thereto are eliminated. thus permitting of a bowl being provided with my flushing apparatus presenting a neatappearance in a water closet or other compartment.

To this and other ends I have devised a flushing apparatus that may be built into a wall or partition and by using a two-way valve and ordinary pipes and plumber fittings I can provide two tanks or reservoirs, which in connection with the two-way valve, are adapted to alternately communicate with the bowl whereby the contents of the reservoirs ortanks may flush and wash the same.

My invention will be hereinafter specificallv described and then claimed and reference will now be had to the drawing, wherein- Figure l is a side elevation oi the flushing apparatus;

Fig. 2 is a front elevation'of the same partly in section, and

Fig. 3 is an enlarged of the two-way valve.

In the drawings, 1 denotes a floor supportdetail sectional View ing a conventional form of water closet bowl 2 and adjacent the bowl 2 is a wall 3 in which is located the flushing apparatus for the bowl 2, the wall beingshown as hollow for the purpose.

The flushing apparatus comprises a twoway valve body 4 having opposed tank connections 5, a water supply connection for a water supply 7 and a connection 8 tor a bowl pipe 9, the connections 6 and 8 being opposed and in a plane at a right angle to the connections 5. The water supply pipe 7 may enter the wall 3 from any point, but preterabl in a manner which conceals the same, and the bowl pipe 9 extends out of the wall and is connected to the bowl 2.

In the two-way valve body 4 is a valve plug 10 having ports 11 and 12 disposed so that the port 11 may in. one position establish communication between one of the tank connections 5 and the connection 6 and in another position establish communication between the same tank connection and the connection 8. The port 12 is adapted to establish communication between one tank connection 5 and the connection 8 and in another position establish communication between the same tank connection and the connection 6, it being necessary to rock or partially rotate the valve plug 10. To do this said valve plug has a stem 13 extending out of the wall 3 and provided with a suitable operating crank or handle 14, which may be manipulated by the person using the bowl 2.

To limit the movement 01": the valve plug 10 and thus insure proper port and connection registration the valve plug 10 has a pin 15 adapted to engage stop shoulders 16 of the valve body 4, and to insure a positive operation of the stem 13 and prevent as far as possible, a partial movement of the same, said valve stem has an overhead pendulum or weighted arm 17 which will complete a partial movement of the valve stem in either direction. it being practically impossible to balance the pendulum or weighted arm 17 in a vertical plane. In other words the user of the bowl 2 ma impart suflicient impetus to the valve stem 13 for adjusting the valve and the. pendulum will complete the operation of said valve.

(onnected to the tank connections 5 by ordinarv fittings 18 are vertically disposed parallel tar-ks l9 and 20, preferably made of pipes of sutlicient diameter to constitute tanks. each of which, is capable of holding sutlicient water to flush the bowl 2 when necessary.

'11 ot the valve establishes communi ation between the water supply connection (3 and the tank 20. The tank 19 is empty as it is drained into the bowl 2 to flush the same. hen the valve is operated through the medium of the crank 14 the tank 20 is placed in communication with the bowl 2 and the tank 1.) receives water under pressure,

It is thought that the utility of the flushing apparatus will be apparent without further description and while in the drawing there illustrated a preferred embodiment of m invention. it is to be understood that the structural elements are susceptible to such variations and modifications as fall within the scope of the appended claim.

Yihat I claim is:-

In flushing apparatus z vzilve body haw in a port connected to permanent supply and 11 port connected to a discharge, said ports extending in opposite directions from the plug cavity of the body, pair of tanks of peinmnent dimensions, said body also having oppositely disposed. ports intersectingz plzineof thesupplyanddischarge ports at approximatel right angles to such plane and communicating wiih the respective flanks, a turning plug in said body having its ports arranged to place a tank llbGlIlfliBiy in com inunieation with the supply and discharge firm through the same plug port, and means for shifting the position of the plug at will, said means including an operating handle and a weighted structure, said structure 20 axis, said plug being movable between positions Where one tank 15 normally 1n open 25 wmmunicution with the supply and the other tank with the discharge, shifting oi the plug reversing this relntidu.

in testimony whereof I aiiix my signature in the presence of two witnesses.

' HENRY J. BRESSON. lVitnesses ANNA M. Donn, KARL H. BUTLER. 

